这份于2026年9月25日发布的播客文字记录，介绍了一款名为“CoSign”的新产品，该产品旨在成为创业社区内最全面的公司和人员名录，其核心关注点是专业声誉。其核心前提是，“在市场之前识别事物”的能力——无论是人才、公司还是产品——是行业中最关键的技能，然而信息不对称使得这变得充满挑战。 发言人强调，尽管硅谷生态系统中的许多人都希望建立联系，但“信息问题”常常阻碍了这些联系的建立。他们认为，传统的资历，例如斯坦福大学的学位，正变得不如“同行认可的资历”令人印象深刻，比如受到帕特里克·科里森（Patrick Collison）、埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）或马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）等有影响力人物的关注。这种公开的认可，即“Co-sign”，作为一种价值信号并打开了大门，吸引了投资者、合作者和雇主。 CoSign旨在将这些“Co-sign”正式化并使其持久。该平台将在每个个人资料中提供三种主要的认可类型： 1. **“谁塑造了你的职业生涯？”**：突出导师以及硅谷导师驱动的经济模式。 2. **“无论在哪里都愿意一起工作”** 或 **“与你并肩作战过”**：这是一个深层次协作信任的细致信号，表明无论身处何种事业，某人真正愿意与之共事的对象。 3. **“值得关注的人”**：基于早期信念，识别那些被认为将脱颖而出的新兴人才。 这些认可也延伸到公司，允许用户表明他们认为哪些公司将会表现出色，这相当于一种“虚拟投资”或“社会资本投资”。这解决了对高信念洞察的需求，而目前投资者和求职者都需要付出大量的人工努力才能获得这些洞察。 发言人将CoSign与现有平台进行了对比。尽管像X这样的社交媒体提供了有价值但短暂的声誉建设，但CoSign旨在通过将公告和深思熟虑的评论绑定到个人资料上，使其声誉“持久”，以供后代查阅。领英（LinkedIn）尽管是一款“标志性产品”，但却因将所有连接视为平等，以及在活跃用户中“净推荐值”（Net Promoter Score）较低而受到批评。CoSign旨在提供关于人际关系和专业意图的更“细致的信息”，例如“如果他们创业我就会投资他们”或“如果他们考虑离职我就会聘用他们”，从而促进工作、投资乃至收购的更精确匹配。 讨论了“社交简历”的概念，即专业个人资料不仅仅是自我报告的，而是由值得信赖的人脉进行注释，从而使人才发现和招聘更加高效。该平台也让认可者受益，因为第一个Co-sign某人可以建立长期的社会资本，这与纳瓦尔·拉维坎特（Naval Ravikant）的名言相符：“优秀到让人们通过你来做生意。” CoSign旨在成为一个纯积极的平台，一个“庆祝”和人们“以良好方式展示自己”的地方，它认识到除了创始人之外，许多人对公司的成功至关重要，但却很少得到他们应得的公众认可。CoSign利用人工智能，从公共来源聚合信息以生成全面的个人资料，解决“冷启动问题”，并确保可靠、声誉丰富的数据。目标是让“声誉市场更高效、更具流动性”，修复信息不对称，并促进一个能通过真实认可发现和提拔人才的精英治理体系，就像早期对萨姆·奥尔特曼（Sam Altman）或爱彼迎（Airbnb）创始人提供的Co-sign一样。该项目被呈现为邀请社区共同建设这一公共事业。

This podcast transcript, published on September 25, 2026, introduces "CoSign," a new product designed to be the most comprehensive directory of companies and people within the startup community, focusing on professional reputation. The core premise is that the ability to "identify things before the market"—be it talent, companies, or products—is the most crucial skill in the industry, yet information asymmetry makes this challenging. The speakers highlight that while many people in the Silicon Valley ecosystem want to connect, an "information problem" often prevents these connections. They argue that traditional credentials, like a Stanford degree, are becoming less impressive than "peer-to-peer credentials," such as being followed by influential figures like Patrick Collison, Elon Musk, or Marc Andreessen. This public endorsement, or "co-sign," serves as a signal of worth and opens doors, attracting investors, collaborators, and employers. CoSign aims to formalize and make durable these "co-signs." The platform will feature three primary types of endorsements on every profile: 1. **"Who shaped your career?"**: Highlighting mentors and the mentor-driven economy of Silicon Valley. 2. **"Would work with anywhere" or "in the trenches with"**: A granular signal of deep collaborative trust, indicating who someone would truly want to work with regardless of the venture. 3. **"Person to watch"**: Identifying emergent talent believed to ascend, based on early conviction. These endorsements extend to companies as well, allowing users to signal which companies they believe will be great, serving as a form of "fantasy investing" or "social capital investment." This addresses the need for high-conviction insights, which currently require extensive manual effort from investors and job seekers alike. The speakers contrast CoSign with existing platforms. While social media like X offers valuable, albeit ephemeral, reputation building, CoSign aims to make this reputation "durable" by tying announcements and thoughtful comments to a person's profile for posterity. LinkedIn, despite being an "iconic product," is criticized for treating all connections as equal and for its low "Net Promoter Score" among active users. CoSign aims to provide more "granular information" about relationships and professional intent, such as "I would fund them if they start a company" or "I would hire them if they consider leaving," facilitating better matching for jobs, investments, and even acquisitions. The idea of "social CVs" is discussed, where a professional profile isn't just self-reported but annotated by trusted connections, making talent discovery and hiring more efficient. The platform also benefits the endorser, as being the first to co-sign someone builds long-term social capital, aligning with Naval Ravikant's quote: "Be so good that people do business through you." CoSign intends to be a positive-only platform, a place for "celebration" and for people to "show off in a good way," acknowledging that many people beyond founders are critical to a company's success but rarely get the public recognition they deserve. Leveraging AI, CoSign aggregates information from public sources to generate comprehensive profiles, addressing the "cold start problem" and ensuring reliable, reputation-rich data. The goal is to make the "reputation market more efficient and liquid," fixing information asymmetry and fostering a meritocracy where talent can be discovered and rise through authentic endorsements, much like the early co-signs given to figures like Sam Altman or the founders of Airbnb. The project is presented as an invitation to the community to collaboratively build this public utility.